Humanoid's HMND 01 completes autonomous logistics at Siemens factory in Erlangen

Overview

At a Siemens blueprint autonomous electronics factory in Erlangen, Germany, Humanoid's HMND 01 wheeled humanoid robot — running the NVIDIA Jetson Thor edge AI module for on-robot compute and developed using Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab open frameworks for simulation and reinforcement learning — completed autonomous logistics operations in a first proof of concept within the production environment. Humanoid's simulation-first development compressed what typically takes up to two years of hardware development down to seven months.

The challenge

Developing humanoid robots capable of operating in real production environments has typically required up to two years of hardware development, and traditional industrial robots have been constrained to rigid, pre-programmed behavior under a fixed set of conditions rather than being able to navigate unstructured environments and adapt autonomously.

The solution

At a Siemens blueprint autonomous electronics factory in Erlangen, Germany, Humanoid's HMND 01 wheeled humanoid robot — running the NVIDIA Jetson Thor edge AI module for on-robot compute and developed using the Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab open frameworks for simulation and reinforcement learning — completed autonomous logistics operations in a first proof of concept within the production environment, using a simulation-first development approach.

Reported business value

Humanoid's simulation-first development compressed what typically takes up to two years of hardware development down to seven months, culminating in a first proof-of-concept for autonomous logistics operations within Siemens' production environment at Erlangen.